Thursday, February 12

UCLA uses CARES Act funds to offer all eligible students at least $200

UCLA will give at least $200 to students eligible for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act from federal funding. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Monroe Gorden announced the availability of financial relief Thursday in an email to students. Read more...

Photo: UCLA will provide universal awards and need-based financial aid for eligible students using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)


Daily Bruin alum awarded Pulitzer Prize for investigation of US Navy’s 7th Fleet

People say there are two types of journalists: journalists who beg for information and journalists who bulldoze their way for information. UCLA alumnus and former Daily Bruin editor Robert Faturechi falls into the latter, said recent Pulitzer Prize winner T. Read more...

Photo: Robert Faturechi, a ProPublica reporter and Daily Bruin alumnus, recently won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation he and two other journalists conducted into U.S. Navy leadership in the aftermath of several fatal accidents. (Courtesy of ProPublica)




Student organizations collaborate to create 3D-printed PPE for hospitals

Two UCLA-based student organizations are working together to 3D print personal protective equipment, or PPE, for local hospitals across California, New York and Rhode Island. The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused shortages of PPE for health care professionals across the nation, leaving medical workers without the necessary protection or having to reuse PPE. Read more...

Photo: Two UCLA student organizations are working to design and 3D print personal protective equipment in light of shortages arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy of Kyle Ho)


Former Daily Bruin editor awarded Pulitzer Prize for journalism

This post was updated May 5 at 12:55 a.m. A UCLA alumnus and former Daily Bruin editor won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on Monday. Read more...

Photo: Robert Faturechi, a UCLA alumnus and Daily Bruin reporter, won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on Monday. Faturechi was the editor for Enterprise, the Bruin’s long-term investigative section, from 2007 to 2008. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC workers continue COLA movement virtually on International Workers’ Day

University of California graduate and union workers held strikes and panels Friday for International Workers’ Day to demand increased wages to match rising living costs. Graduate students across the UC held a general strike to demand a cost of living adjustment to their wages. Read more...

Photo: University of California graduate students have been demanding a cost of living adjustment since December, when graduate students at UC Santa Cruz went on strike and withheld fall quarter grades. Graduate students at other campuses, including UCLA, have since held rallies and strikes to demand COLA. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)



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